Borders & Belonging co-sponsors Arts of the 'Jungle': Refugee in Calais


 Humanities Center     Nov 8 2019 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM HG 1010

Designated as "the jungle,” the detainment ‘camp’ in Calais, France, sheltered close to 4,000 refugees in 2016. Most of them sought to cross over from North Africa into the United Kingdom, with its promise of more hospitable conditions. That Spring, as the EU brokered its migrant deal with Turkey to 'save lives' in the Mediterranean, the French state tore down refugees' tents and shacks in the “jungle's” southern zone while building a ‘humanitarian’ container camp. The camp was razed in its totality the following Fall out of concern from the ‘dignity’ and ‘welfare’ of the migrants. Sanyal analyzes photography, documentary film, and refugee testimony that emerged from the encampments of Calais, and reads borderscapes like Calais for the interplay of securitarian force and humanitarian compassion they encode and on which they rely.

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